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In reply to the discussion: Oh... NOW... I Get It... [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)25. well, you do not have to be rich to RUN for Congress
I proved that by running myself. In 2010, when my adjusted gross income was $13,335.11.
But like Alan Grayson, John Kerry, Mark Dayton, Claire McCaskill, and Herb Kohl, you need to be rich to WIN.
Tammy Baldwin is not rich, though and she just won a Senate seat. Still, she has been in the House since 1998. So, over the last 14 years, she has been paid about $2,200,000. Which is about $2 million more than I made in the last 14 years.
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And they don't even count the people who lost so much they had to zero out their meager
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#28
We need a fundamental change in how our government is constituted and under what rules
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#29
Regarding the House: Here's a petition to recognize the Tea Party as a treasonous hate group:
patrice
Nov 2012
#14
The tea party is a distraction, nothing more. We have a fundamentally dysfunctional government
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#30
I agree that the 2 parties are similar - BUT not! the same & just as differences between you and
patrice
Nov 2012
#36
That's what I said. What I didn't say is that the two parties are the same, they aren't.
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#39
I've been meaning to look at that source to see what I think of it, but it's an INTERESTING graphic
patrice
Nov 2012
#34
Absolutely right. How can anyone seriously think that only 250 of them have more than $1 million?
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#27